• The Fracking Won’t Save Us Chart

    Updated: 2012-03-31 22:30:41
    From EIA. Prudhoe Bay also “reversed the decline in domestic oil production” at one point.

  • News Feed: Health Impact Fracking Studies Taking Hold, With Challenges - CBS Local

    Updated: 2012-03-31 21:57:00
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  • News Feed: Marcellus shale means money for western Pa. land owners - Youngstown Vindicator

    Updated: 2012-03-31 20:24:45
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  • Saturday’s top of the scroll: ACWA committee discusses H.R. 1837, forms work group to develop ideas

    Updated: 2012-03-31 16:28:45
    From ACWA’s Water News: “ACWA’s Federal Affairs Committee voted March 29 to maintain a “watch” position on H.R. 1837 and form a work group to develop constructive ideas for addressing Endangered Species Act implementation issues. H.R. 1837, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act, was approved by the House of Representatives on Feb. 29. Authored [...]

  • Bird deaths fuel posturing over Klamath pact

    Updated: 2012-03-31 16:26:32
    From the Capital Press: “The cholera deaths of at least 3,000 migratory birds in two wildlife refuges near here have fueled the latest round of posturing over a landmark water-sharing agreement. Biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the past week have been collecting carcasses of snow geese and other birds in the [...]

  • California water wars spotlight: MWD, The 800 lb gorilla

    Updated: 2012-03-31 16:24:32
    From the Independent Voter Network: “The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) is the biggest supplier of treated water in the US. It delivers an average of 1.7 billion gallons of water daily to 17 million people in Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Riverside, San Diego, San Bernardino and Ventura counties. MWD is composed [...]

  • Restore the Delta blogs on the BDCP meeting, the Senate Natural Resources & Water Committee hearing, and more

    Updated: 2012-03-31 16:18:58
    From Restore the Delta, multiple posts on multiple meetings, hearings & etc: FROM THE BDCP MEETING: “A high and irreducible level of complexity”: Those are the words used by Dr. Chris Earle of ICF International to describe the project underlying the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). This month’s BDCP public meeting provided an update from [...]

  • Delta National Park blog: Selling salt II

    Updated: 2012-03-31 16:04:00
    From the Delta National Park blog: “Sorry to be a cynic, but today’s thoughts consider how the status quo of salt not so slowly shaken/stirred/drained into water is by default likely to prevail for the foreseeable future in the Delta. For another manifestation of the stalemated, see Inkstain’s parsing of the National Research Council’s Delta [...]

  • Commentary: Protecting our water rights

    Updated: 2012-03-31 16:00:44
    From Cal Coast News, this commentary by John Salisbury: “Up north, we long-time farmers have been hearing a great sucking sound south of us that is going to get a lot louder if the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act, authored by San Joaquin Valley representatives, that was passed by members of both parties in [...]

  • Feds add Bay-Delta longfin smelt to ESA waiting list

    Updated: 2012-03-31 15:58:17
    From Dan Bacher at IndyBay.org: “The federal government on March 29 found that the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary population of longfin smelt, a cousin to the endangered Delta smelt, warrants protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). However, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a statement that it is precluded at this time [...]

  • Chinese Whispers about the death of a Hakluyt agent

    Updated: 2012-03-31 15:43:06
    Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Chinese Whispers about the death of a Hakluyt agent Mar 31st , 2012 by John Donovan The fact that Mr Heywood worked for Hakluyt the corporate intelligence firm closely linked with Shell is said to be seen by some as a clue to his untimely death . Titled Shell directors were the ultimate spymasters and major shareholders in Hakluyt . EMAIL SENT BY JOHN DONOVAN TO MR MICHIEL BRANDJES , COMPANY SECRETARY GENERAL COUNSEL CORPORATE , ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC . POSTED AS AN ARTICLE Dear Mr Brandjes I am sure you will be aware of the recent articles concerning sinister events in . China Today , BBC News published an article : China arrests over coup

  • Shell’s Alaska Plan Doesn’t Eliminate Spill Risks, GAO Says

    Updated: 2012-03-31 15:43:03
    , Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Shell’s Alaska Plan Doesn’t Eliminate Spill Risks , GAO Says Mar 30th , 2012 by John Donovan By Katarzyna Klimasinska Mar 30, 2012 9:00 PM GMT+0100 Royal Dutch Shell Plc RDSA s plan for oil drilling off Alaska s north coast fails to deal with some risks linked to operating in the remote region , the U.S . Government Accountability Office . said The federal watchdog’s comment strengthens calls from environmental groups , such as the Natural Resources Defense Council and Alaskan native people , that have been urging President Barack Obama s administration to delay Arctic oil . exploration Ice that floats on the surface or scrapes the

  • GAO finds Arctic offshore-drilling risks despite toughened oversight

    Updated: 2012-03-31 15:43:01
    Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library GAO finds Arctic offshore-drilling risks despite toughened oversight Mar 30th , 2012 by John Donovan Congressional auditors say in a newly released report that oil giant Royal Dutch Shell’s plans to drill in Arctic waters off Alaska’s coast will present environmental risks , despite the company’s plans to prevent and contain . accidents By Ben Geman 03 30 12 01:26 PM ET Congressional auditors say in a newly released report that oil giant Royal Dutch Shell’s plans to drill in Arctic waters off Alaska’s coast will present environmental risks , despite the company’s plans to prevent and contain . accidents The Government Accountability Office

  • The wisdom of wastewater recycling

    Updated: 2012-03-31 15:38:45
    From the Atlantic Cities: “Not often enough do cities tell their toilet water how much they love it, how much they need it. According to a recent report from the National Academy of Sciences, 12 billion gallons of municipal wastewater in the U.S. is dumped into an ocean or estuary every day, sent out to [...]

  • KlamBlog: The Big Policy Picture: Is the KHSA a good model for other rivers with obsolete hydro dams?

    Updated: 2012-03-31 15:34:57
    From the KlamBLog: “Beginning early in the 20th century and continuing through the 1960s thousands of hydroelectric dams were constructed on hundreds of US rivers and streams. Now portions of that vast infrastructure are reaching the end of their useful livers and will be shut down; the dams will be breached, removed or left in [...]

  • Sonoma County: March douses water supply worries

    Updated: 2012-03-31 15:30:01
    From the Santa Rosa Press Democrat: “Breathe easy, Sonoma County, we are back to normal. What Sonoma County Water Agency officials are calling a “Miracle March,” of heavy rainfall has pushed water supply conditions for the Russian River from “critical” to “normal,” ” The move to normal means the water agency will not reduce Russian [...]

  • Today Mayor Lee challenged San Franciscans to pledge to conserve water

    Updated: 2012-03-31 15:27:23
    From Examiner.com: “San Francisco was named the Greenest City in North America, with this in mind Mayor Edwin Lee is challenging San Francisco residents and businesses to show the nation how wisely they use water by participating in the National Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation. The challenge is an online pledge drive to conserve water, [...]

  • Contra Costa clean water election draws scrutiny and public ire

    Updated: 2012-03-31 15:24:59
    From the Silicon Valley Mercury News: “Everybody wants clean water but not everybody is swallowing the new stormwater fee up for a vote by Contra Costa County property owners. Angry constituents are flooding county offices with phone calls and letters about the “2012 Clean Water Initiative,” a ballot sent to property owners countywide seeking a [...]

  • Volunteers sought to help with management of Delta

    Updated: 2012-03-31 15:22:37
    From the Sacramento Bee: “Volunteers are sought to help state officials manage wildlife, public lands and related administrative tasks in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and San Francisco Bay Area. The Natural Resource Volunteer Program is run by the California Department of Fish and Game. Volunteers must contribute at least 24 hours per month, in which [...]

  • FoLAR’s LA river vision may require jurisdictional coordination & governance change

    Updated: 2012-03-31 15:16:31
    From The Planning Report: “Lewis MacAdams, poet and founder of Friends of the Los Angeles River, and Charles Eddy, retired attorney, environmentalist, and current FoLAR board member, discuss their work to create a management authority for the Los Angeles River. Having advocated for opening the river up to public use for decades, they have turned [...]

  • LA City’s water reclamation projects highlight success of clean water efforts

    Updated: 2012-03-31 15:09:54
    From The Planning Report: “Adel Hagekhalil, Assistant Director of the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation, provides MIR with a another is a series of essays on clean water projects in Los Angeles. While rain in Southern California falls infrequently, it often manages to cause flooding and to wash pollution into the ocean. The [...]

  • Explorations of the Lower Colorado River #2: the river in Yuma

    Updated: 2012-03-31 15:04:39
    From the L.A. Creek Freak: “I found myself in Yuma, AZ, looking down the banks of the Colorado River from the old Quartermaster’s Depot, a complex of old adobe and more recently constructed buildings with a bright green lawn in its large central court. After a long drive through the California desert, the lawn was [...]

  • News Feed: Fracking Stock Plays Promising Major Earnings Says Absolute Wealth - PR Web (press release)

    Updated: 2012-03-31 09:42:54
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  • News Feed: Fracking lines lack oversight - Marietta Times

    Updated: 2012-03-31 05:54:58
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  • News Feed: Tests raise questions for EPA about possible fracking leaks - Fort Worth Star Telegram

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  • Washington Times: A Synopsis of POTUS’s Week

    Updated: 2012-03-30 22:48:29
    “One of the worst weeks in history for a sitting president” READ MORE...

  • VIDEO: Allen West Rallies Against Government Control

    Updated: 2012-03-30 19:51:56
    “If government can tell us to buy health insurance, what’s next?” READ MORE...

  • Mega Millions Climbs to $640 Million

    Updated: 2012-03-30 19:48:12
    I’m feeling pretty good about my chances READ MORE...

  • New Pro-Santorum Ad: Romney, the Etch-a-Sketch Candidate

    Updated: 2012-03-30 19:40:49
    Latest from Foster and the Red, White, and Blue Fund READ MORE...

  • Friday’s top of the scroll: Prestigious panel agrees: Delta is stressed, with no easy fix

    Updated: 2012-03-30 17:28:40
    From the Sacramento Bee: “A comprehensive new study on the Delta’s environmental problems concludes there is no easy fix, only hard choices, if California wants to restore fish species and still satisfy its water demands. The study by the National Research Council, released Thursday, was conducted at the request of members of Congress and the [...]

  • State Water Contractors issue statement on NAS Report

    Updated: 2012-03-30 17:24:19
    From the State Water Contractors: “The National Research Council (NRC) released a report today analyzing the many stressors that impact the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta) ecosystem. NRC was charged with analyzing each stressor and ranking its impact on the Delta, however the researchers determined that identifying one or even a few stressors as the source [...]

  • California Farm Water Coalition responds to NAS Report

    Updated: 2012-03-30 17:22:41
    From the Western Farm Press, this response to the NAS Report from the California Farm Water Coalition: “The report by the National Research Council is excellent news for anyone interested in a solution to California’s ecosystem and water supply crisis. This broad-ranging report focused on water and environmental management in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The [...]

  • Alex Breitler’s blog: Bits and pieces of the NAS report

    Updated: 2012-03-30 17:21:07
    From Alex Breitler’s blog: “Here are some nuggest from today’s National Academy of Sciences final report on the Delta (link to free download here). I thought they were interesting; maybe you will, too. • “The current organizational structure (or absence of structure), which lacks clear, unambiguous assignments of authorities and responsibilities, makes it difficult to [...]

  • Inkstain blog: A fevered first reading of the National Research Council’s Bay-Delta Report

    Updated: 2012-03-30 17:19:32
    Inkstain blogger Jon Fleck recovers from the flu just in time to start reading the NAS Report: ” … I emerged from the fog today with enough energy to begin perusing the new National Research Council Bay-Delta report. Michael Campana’s posted the whole thing over at his blog, and it’s worth a few days’ digestion, [...]

  • Lack of water plagues birds; thousands dying in Siskiyou’s dry refuge marshes

    Updated: 2012-03-30 17:15:58
    From the Record Searchlight: “At least 10,000 migrating snow geese and other waterfowl have died this spring at drought-plagued Lower Klamath and Tule Lake national wildlife refuges along the Oregon border in Siskiyou County. Biologists are calling the avian cholera outbreak one of the biggest drought-related die-offs in the refuges’ more than 100-year history. “We’re [...]

  • New bill would make confidential groundwater info public

    Updated: 2012-03-30 17:06:40
    From KQED’s Climate Watch: “It’s no secret that with several recent years of drought, California’s groundwater supplies have come under increasing strain. But Dennis O’Connor, a water consultant with the State Senate Natural Resources and Water committee, wants to rewrite an arcane piece of California water law that, for decades, has kept documents containing information [...]

  • Salty and getting fresh: The world cradle of desalination know-how wants to start using it

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:59:13
    From the Economist: “If California were not already so famous for Silicon Valley and Hollywood, it might be renowned for the cluster of water-technology firms in its San Diego County. The reverse-osmosis (RO) spiral module, the trick that underpins turning sea- and waste-water into potable stuff, was patented in San Diego in 1964. Today dozens [...]

  • Longfin smelt in Delta named candidate for federal protection

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:57:16
    From ACWA’s Water News: “The population of longfin smelt in the Bay-Delta has been named a candidate for protection under the Endangered Species Act as the result of a finding today by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. FWS is unable to add the species to the federal list of threatened and endangered species at [...]

  • Weather update: Winter storm watch for the Sierra; snowpack survey set for Monday

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:52:08
    Here’s the outlook for the weekend from the National Weather Service in Sacramento: “Moisture plume will continue rain over northern portions of California through tonight. Pacific storm moves through Saturday bringing precipitation and strong winds. Wind Advisory is in effect for much of interior Northern California Saturday. Heavy snow is possible in the mountains of [...]

  • Politcal commentary: Water bond sinking

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:46:00
    From NBC Bay Area, this political commentary: “Sometimes good things happen for all the wrong reasons. That just may occur if the legislature pulls the plug on a proposed $11 billion water bond scheduled to go before the voters this coming November. Some legislators see the bond as a threat to passing Gov. Jerry Brown’s [...]

  • Cal Watchdog blog: Feinstein ends truce, restarts water wars

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:45:42
    From Cal Watchdog blog: “California’s water wars are back. U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., sent a letter to the Association of California Water Agencies late Tuesday March 27 again pitting North against South. The letter stated Feinstein was no longer entertaining compromise legislation on House Resolution H.R. 1837, the San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act, [...]

  • Chronicles of the Hydraulic Brotherhood blog: How the West(lands) was won, a two-part series

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:39:41
    From Lloyd Carter’s Chronicles of the Hydraulic Brotherhood blog: “In the wake of the public relations debacle over the brief hiring of former federal judge Oliver Wanger, the Westlands Water District has now hired a high-powered Denver, Colorado law firm with close ties to Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar and political tentacles reaching to the highest [...]

  • Mixed reactions to Trinity River flow requests

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:26:19
    From the Trinity Journal: “The request from Humboldt County and the Hoopa Valley Tribe that an additional 50,000 acre-feet of water be released to the Trinity River this year to avert a fish die-off is met with varying responses in Trinity County. The Hoopa tribe and Humboldt say conditions for a die-off like that seen [...]

  • Fish and Game moving forward with frost protection; Vineyard owners receive letters reminding them to comply despite court action

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:24:20
    From the Ukiah Daily Journal: “Though proposed frost protection regulations have been put on hold, landowners along the Russian River received letters from the California Department of Fish and Game reminding them of their need to comply. “Please be advised that notification for a Lake and Streambed Aleration Agreement (LSAA) pursuant to Fish and Game [...]

  • Crowd gathers with skepticism of Butte County flood bypass

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:22:48
    From the Oroville Mercury-Register: “The banquet room of the Richvale Cafe was packed elbow-to-elbow Wednesday night with landowners irked with vague plans to shift floodwater from the Feather River across Butte County to the Butte Sink. The plans are part of the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan, a $15 billion-$17 billion overhaul of the system [...]

  • March shaping up to be one of wettest in 80 years

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:21:02
    From Petaluma 360: “What a difference a month can make. On March 1, local officials declared that water supply conditions for the Russian River had fallen to “critical” levels following a near record-dry February and December. Four rainy weeks later, however, supplies have bounced back to “dry” and may reach “normal” if enough rain comes [...]

  • Officials tout low-water ag projects

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:20:01
    From the Appeal Democrat: “Agricultural producers who are willing to switch from water-heavy farming methods to more conservative approaches may be eligible for new funding to complete their projects. The Natural Resources Conservation Service and Sutter County Resource Conservation District announced on Thursday that the Lower Snake River watershed has been allotted $1.6 million to [...]

  • Shell gets injunction for Arctic drill ships

    Updated: 2012-03-30 15:42:17
    Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Shell gets injunction for Arctic drill ships Mar 30th , 2012 by John Donovan The Associated Press March 29, 2012, 7:10PM ET ANCHORAGE , Alaska A federal judge has ordered representatives of Greenpeace USA to stay a kilometer away from Shell Oil’s drilling vessels destined for Arctic Ocean waters off Alaska’s northern . shores The 29-page order signed Wednesday by Judge Sharon Gleason in Anchorage grants a preliminary injunction requested by Shell through Oct . 31, the end of the open water drilling season . A 500-meter safety zone is in place for support . vessels The restrictions apply to U.S . territorial waters up to 12 miles from shore

  • Crude World

    Updated: 2012-03-30 01:15:08
    Every day, the world burns through more than 87 million barrels of oil—and every year, that number gets bigger and bigger. We use oil to power our cars, planes and trucks; our tanks, bombers and rockets. Oil is irreplacable, which is why we remain addicted—even though we hate it. And it’s why the oil industry—represented [...]

  • Foster on Neil Cavuto

    Updated: 2012-03-29 23:55:41
    “Mitt Romney is running for the White House and Rick Santorum is running to save the country” READ MORE...

  • Frackers Win With Obama’s New Greenhouse Gas Rule

    Updated: 2012-03-29 22:49:39
    Most Natural Gas Plants Already Meet Proposed Emissions Limit

  • The man who shook Shell

    Updated: 2012-03-29 22:48:05
    Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library The man who shook Shell Mar 29th , 2012 by John Donovan By Clémence Grison paris 29.03.2012 John Donovan , who worked with Shell , reveals damaging information on the oil giant . This personal revenge has already cost the Anglo-Dutch company billions of . dollars John Donovan , 64, is a meticulous man and very knowledgeable . For several years he has spent most of his time on what he describes as his super-hobby” : the website royaldutchshellplc.com with scoops on the evils of the . multinational We simply ask the leaders of Shell to respect the principles they claim to honor already . That in a nutshell the site’s purpose : to expose the

  • Village Claims Shell Oil Ruined Its Water

    Updated: 2012-03-29 22:48:04
    Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Village Claims Shell Oil Ruined Its Water Mar 29th , 2012 by John Donovan Roxana , a village of 1,550 in Southern Illinois , claims in court that a Shell oil refinery contaminated the village’s water and soil with benzene levels as much as 26,000 times greater than allowed by state . law By JOE HARRIS : Thursday , March 29, 2012 EDWARDSVILLE , Ill . CN Roxana , a village of 1,550 in Southern Illinois , claims in court that a Shell oil refinery contaminated the village’s water and soil with benzene levels as much as 26,000 times greater than allowed by state . law The Village of Roxana sued Shell Oil , Equilon Enterprises dba Shell Oil

  • Thieves steal £2.8bn of oil out of Shell’s pipelines in Niger Delta

    Updated: 2012-03-29 22:48:02
    Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Thieves steal 2.8bn of oil out of Shell’s pipelines in Niger Delta Mar 29th , 2012 by John Donovan By Rob Davies In Port Harcourt , Nigeria : PUBLISHED 20:59, 28 March 2012 Thieves siphoned up to 4.5bn 2.8bn of oil out of Shell’s pipelines in the Niger Delta last year , in a worsening epidemic that threatens to overwhelm efforts to reduce oil . spills Bunkering’ the industry term for stealing oil from pipelines resulted in lost production of up to 100,000 barrels per day last . year The sheer scale of the problem means SPDC Shell’s joint venture with the Nigerian government is losing more oil to bunkering than is produced by countries such

  • Investor’s Business Daily Not Mincing Words on Obamacare

    Updated: 2012-03-29 20:27:59
    “Verrilli failed to muster a single coherent, reasonable argument” READ MORE...

  • Obama’s Budget Loses By a Nose—414 to 0

    Updated: 2012-03-29 20:24:56
    He still deserves a trophy for showing up READ MORE...

  • Drilling Rigs in the U.S.

    Updated: 2012-03-29 14:00:59
    via Stuart Staniford’s Early Warning: http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2012/03/us-rig-count-trends.html

  • Want to buy some oil wells?

    Updated: 2012-03-29 06:43:05
    Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Want to buy some oil wells Mar 28th , 2012 by John Donovan By John Donovan Its another normal day at the Donovan household in . Colchester One party who contacted me offered to sell us some oil . wells Another asked us to provide a Well Completion . Update A few days ago , one of the job applications we received was for the Shell Spy police in Nigeria . Applicant submitted an impressive CV . Also received many business propositions from China . Shell seems perfectly relaxed about the Donovans acting on their behalf in handling these matters and it all k eeps life interesting for . us Posted in : China GoogleNews John Donovan Nigeria Oil

  • US To Approve Shell’s Alaska Oil Spill Response Plan – Interior Secretary

    Updated: 2012-03-29 06:43:03
    Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library US To Approve Shell’s Alaska Oil Spill Response Plan Interior Secretary Mar 28th , 2012 by John Donovan Published March 28, 2012 Dow Jones Newswires WASHINGTON Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday the department would approve Royal Dutch Shell’s RDSA , RDSA.LN oil-spill response plan for exploratory oil wells in the Beaufort Sea this summer , a move the company called another major milestone” toward drilling there this . summer Salazar , speaking at a press conference about Atlantic Ocean energy development , said the approval would come later Wednesday as part of the Obama administration’s effort to support oil and gas development

  • Spike Lee, Possibly Obama’s Biggest Fan and Huge Donor, Puts Elderly Couple In Danger…

    Updated: 2012-03-29 05:02:18
    After retweeting address wrongly suspected to be that of alleged shooter in Trayvon Martin’s death READ MORE...

  • IRS Gets Ready to Hire Obamacare Enforcers

    Updated: 2012-03-28 22:15:58
    Government creates jobs to come after those who don't comply with its unconstitutional edicts READ MORE...

  • Orrin Hatch on Obamacare

    Updated: 2012-03-28 22:11:10
    “This case is about whether our written Constitution still defines and limits federal power” READ MORE...

  • EPA Proposes Strict Emissions Limits on Future Power Plants

    Updated: 2012-03-28 04:49:02
    Industry, GOP Cry Foul, but Enviros Say New Rules Don't Not Make Much Difference Since Coal's Already on Its Way Out

  • Peter Voser, the boss of Shell, got just over £10m

    Updated: 2012-03-28 04:48:46
    , , Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Peter Voser , the boss of Shell , got just over 10m Mar 27th , 2012 by John Donovan One of the standout features of the pay of boardroom bosses for 2011 is the number who seem to be at or near the 10m mark for their take-home . packages For example , Peter Voser , the boss of Shell , got just over 10m while Marjorie Scardino , the chief executive of Pearson , received . 9.6m FULL ARTICLE Posted in : Peter Voser Royal Dutch Shell Plc Tagged : Oil Peter Voser Royal Dutch Shell Plc Shell Fat Cats John Donovan , Shell’s nightmare 0 Comments on Peter Voser , the boss of Shell , got just over 10m” Leave a Comment You must be logged in to post

  • Climate Rules: Why Natural Gas Will Be the Big Winner in New Greenhouse Gas Regulations

    Updated: 2012-03-27 18:15:35
    Ever since comprehensive climate legislation died of neglect in the U.S. Senate in 2010, environmentalists have looked to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to step in and save the day. According to the Supreme Court, the agency has the power—and the responsibility—to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act if the EPA decided climate [...]

  • World Water Day

    Updated: 2012-03-22 16:25:37
    World Water Day 2012 has come and gone, but you can still visit our World Water Day page to learn more about water and food security, the theme of this year’s event, and much more. Then add your thoughts on the state of water across the globe.

  • North American Shale Plays

    Updated: 2012-03-22 07:32:56
    Via EIA. click to enlarge

  • What’s in Your Rice? A Look at Where Rice in the U.S. Comes from

    Updated: 2012-03-22 02:58:48
    US rice production dominates our consumption at over 90% (USDA, 2012), and the question is whether or not that choice is the best one for our water and our environment.

  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Food Security: Can We Have Our Cake and Eat it Too?

    Updated: 2012-03-22 02:27:13
    What are the implications of hydraulic fracturing on agriculture and food security? In agricultural areas with widespread, ongoing hydrofracking, there have been incidences of livestock poisoning from contaminated surface water sources or grasses, and soil contamination from explosions, spills, flares, irresponsible fracking-wastewater treatment, and leaky gas pipes.

  • Water, Water Everywhere, But Nary a Drop to Drink

    Updated: 2012-03-22 00:00:25
    It is a unique challenge of our generation that many in the developing world have cellular phones and TVs, but lack reliable access to water. Odd, perhaps, given that water is marketed as essential for life, a human right, and heart rending pictures of women and children walking miles to fetch water are routinely flashed to tug at everyone’s heart strings.

  • Pennsylvania Fracking Law: If a doctor thinks an illness is fracking-related, he/she is forbidden from talking to the patient or other doctors about it

    Updated: 2012-03-20 00:58:17
    And the public at large of course. “Non-disclosure agreement.” According to this report anyway. … If a company does release information about what is used, health care professionals are bound by a non-disclosure agreement that not only forbids them from warning the community of water and air pollution that may be caused by fracking, but [...]

  • Fracking and Truth Decay

    Updated: 2012-03-17 19:15:16
    Some legislators may have been less than forthcoming about money they might make if the Legislature gets natural gas bills passed. What is it with fracking this year? While ICL does not oppose responsible gas development to provide economic development and an imperfect transition from coal in a time of climate change, we continue to be discouraged by how it gets done.

  • Fracked: CNN Looks Into the Legal Gray Zone of Shale Gas Regulation

    Updated: 2012-03-15 20:22:15
    Oil is all we seem to want to talk about these days—$3.82 a gallon gas will do that—but the shale gas boom is still going on in much of the U.S. Ground zero—as we wrote about last year in TIME—is Pennsylvania, where some landowners have made a lot of money leasing their land for shale [...]

  • Are reporters allowed to explain why fracking sand is radioactive?

    Updated: 2012-03-15 05:04:55
    With articles like this, you’ve got to wonder. Hydraulic fracturing involves the use of millions of gallons of water, chemicals and sand. Occasionally, some of that sand is radioactive. Oh. You don’t say. The state is investigating a possible inappropriate dumping of fracking-related radioactive sand into an unpermitted pit at an EOG Resources oil well [...]

  • Garden Creek 07-14H

    Updated: 2012-03-15 04:55:29
    A sensitive area due to shallow groundwater. According to a site assessment, groundwater is 20 feet below the surface. http://ogccweblink.state.co.us/results.aspx?id=415806

  • Fracking waste-water injection well caused 12 earthquakes in Ohio

    Updated: 2012-03-10 18:51:57
    Linked by too-strong circumstantial evidence. The 12 Youngstown quakes, ranging in magnitude from 2.1 to 4.0, all occurred in a cluster less than a mile from the well and about 2,500 feet below the well itself, according to the Ohio Seismic Network, a division of the ODNR. The quakes began in March 2011, just three [...]

  • Ohio: Gas-drilling Injection Well Led to Quakes

    Updated: 2012-03-09 22:05:00
    (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — A dozen earthquakes in northeastern Ohio were almost certainly induced by injection of gas-drilling wastewater into the earth, state regulators said Friday as they announced a series of tough new rules for drillers. Among the new regulations: Well operators must submit more comprehensive geological data when requesting a drill site, and the [...]

  • A Controversy: Fracturing in the Marcellus Shale

    Updated: 2012-03-09 18:18:06
    The organic-rich source rock of the Marcellus Shale is an on-going target for massive gas extraction. Advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, have made this extensive area of Marcellus black shale one of the largest unconventional and widely controversial gas operations in the United States today.

  • Big Oil vs. Big Gas

    Updated: 2012-03-09 13:00:15
    Kochs don’t like govt. picking winners and losers — especially if the losers are them. The idea of using the tax code to spur conversion of trucking fleets has support from many Democrats and Republicans, and enjoys some powerful backers. They include billionaire energy magnate T. Boone Pickens, Reid and President Obama, who touted his [...]

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